
A sociologist argues that the West's crisis of meaning runs deeper than politics or culture--tracing how ordinary people, from the shopping mall to the sports stadium, are unconsciously reaching for the transcendent in a world that no longer offers them a shared language of...

Examining the battlegrounds across which a struggle for meaning is being fought--including work, sport, intimacy, shopping, tourism, computers, democracy, and a retreat into nature--this work is a compelling investigation on how modern man lives. Dissecting the intersection between...